PUBLISHED BY THE 

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION 

NATIONAL EXPORT EXPOSITION 

PHILADELPHIA, i8gg 



THE NATIONAL 
BXPORT EXPOSITION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES 

AND THE 

EXTENSION OF EXPORT TRADE 

THE FIRST 
NATIONAL EXPOSITION 

OF THE 

MANUFACTURES OF THE UNITED STATES 
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF 

THE 
PHILADELPHIA COMMERCIAL MUSEUM 

AND THE 

FRANKLIN INSTITUTE 

PHILADELPHIA 

SEPTEMBER 14 TO NOVEMBER 30 
1899 



THE PHILADELPHIA EXPOSITION ASSOCIATION 

CONDUCTING THE 

NATIONAL EXPORT EXPOSITION 

OFFICERS. 

P. A. B. WiDENER, 

President. 

W. W. FOULKROD, SYDNEY L,. WRIGHT, 

First Vice-President. Treasurer. 

JOHN BIRKINBINE, B. W. HANNA, 

Second Vice-President. Secretary. 

W. P. WILSON, 
Director-General. 

EDMUND A. FELDER, JOHN BIRKINBINE, 

Assistant Director-General. Engineer-in-Chief. 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION. 

HAL P. DENTON, FRANK W? HAROLD, 

Chief. Assistant Chief. 



DIRECTORS. 

DANIEL BAUGH, A. B. FAROUHAR, 

JOHN BIRKINBINE, W. W. FOULKROD, 

ARTHUR BROCK, WILLIAM HARPER, 

HENRY BURK, JOSEPH S. HARRIS, 

CHARLES H. CRAMP, SAMUEL F. HOUSTON, 

EDWIN S. CRAMP, SARA Y. STEVENSON, 

SAMUEL DISSTON, J. C. STRAW-BRIDGE, 

JAMES M. DODGE, T. B. WANAMAKER, 

THOMAS DOLAN, CHAS. F. WARWICK, 

GEO. F. EDMUNDS, CALVIN WELLS, 

WM. L. ELKINS, P. A. B. WIDENER, 

THEODORE N. ELY, WM. P. WILSON, 
SYDNEY L. WRIGHT. 



EXPOSITION COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN. 

P. A. B. WIDENER, 
Chairman. 

JAMES M. DODGE, WM. P. WILSON, 

First Vice-Chairman. Second Vice-Chairman. 

WM. L. ELKINS, HENRY R. HEYL, 

JOHN BIRKINBINE, HENRY HOWSON, 
THEODORE N. ELY, SYDNEY L. WRIGHT, 

J. C. STRAWBRIDGE, T. B. WANAMAKER, 

GEORGE V. CRESSON, F. LYNWOOD GARRISON, 

W. W. FOULKROD, WILLIAM HARPER. 




NATIONAL 
EXPORT. EXPOSITION 

PHILADELPHIA, 1899 



N September I4th an Exposition unique in 
the commercial history of the United 
States, and of vital interest to every 
manufacturer, will be opened in the city 
of Philadelphia, continuing until Novem- 
BELL ber 3oth, 1899. It will be pre-eminent in 

its distinctive character, as a complete 
display of American manufactures and products suitable 
for export, and unlike any Exposition heretofore held or 
projected. 

Ample appropriations by the Congress of the United 
States, the State of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadel- 
phia, supplemented by the generous contributions of the 
citizens of Philadelphia, provide money sufficient to carry 
out the plans of its projectors on a liberal scale. The 
Exposition is held under the authority of Congress and is 
endorsed by the principal Chambers of Commerce, Boards 
of Trade and other commercial organizations, representing 
every State in the Union, which are giving active support 
and encouragement to the enterprise. 

INCREASE OF OUR EXPORTS. 

During the last few years the export trade of the United 
States, especially in manufactured goods, has increased by 
leaps and bounds. The exports of the manufactured prod- 
ucts of the United States during the fiscal year ending 
June 3oth, 1888, amounted to $130,300,087. The figures for 
the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1898, were $290,697,354. 

The commercial nations of Europe feel this competition. 

and are making strenuous efforts to retain 

their hold on a trade which is already slipping 
through their fingers. They are making the 
most of the opportunities presented by the 
temporary indifference of American manu- 
facturers to foreign trade, on account of the 
present active demand of the home market. 



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WILL AID HOME TRADE. 

Though the Exposition will comprise 
goods especially suitable for export, the 
comprehensive display of American manufactured products 
can not fail to be of the greatest advantage to our home 
trade, entirely aside from the beneficial effect it will have 
on the foreign trade of the country. 

The thousands of strangers from all parts of the United 
States, who visit the Exposition, will have an opportunity 
to inspect the products of manufacturers of every State, 
and exhibitors will certainly derive much profit through 
their products being advertised in the form of an object 
lesson among the people of all parts of the land. 

DEPARTMENT OF UNITED STATES 
MANUFACTURES. 

It is the design of the Exposition management to secure 
the display of every line of American manufactured prod- 
ucts which is in demand abroad, or for which a foreign 
market may be created. 

In this main department, which will demonstrate the 
ability of American manufacturers to supply the world with 
every article needed, the greatest care is being taken to 
secure only the best products, there being no idea of any 
local competition. This department will be thoroughly and 
systematically classified, and therein will be exhibited in its 
proper place everything which by study of the require- 
ments of foreign peoples, may be made known to and 
popular with them. 

In order that there may be put before the world the 
triumphs of American manufacturers in the mechanic arts, 
the exhibit of machinery will be a comprehensive and inter- 
esting feature. The most improved machinery, implements, 
tools and labor-saving devices will be placed on view. As 
far as practicable these will be operating exhibits, thus 
facilitating a more rapid and thorough understanding and 
appreciation of their uses and advantages. 

EXHIBITS OF 
EUROPEAN MANUFACTURES. 

Not less important to the American manufacturer will 
be the department of samples of manufactured goods made 
abroad and now sold in all foreign markets, or prepared in 



those markets for local consumption. These samples 
will completely and systematically illustrate the re- 
quirements of different foreign markets. The organi- 
zation of this department will show to American 
manufacturers just what competition they must meet 
abroad. By examination of these foreign-made goods, 
an accurate judgment can be reached as to how far 
adaptations and alterations must be made in similar 
articles manufactured here, and to what extent Amer- 
ican goods may find a market without modification. 

Congress appropriated $50,000 for the purchase in foreign 
markets of these samples of merchandise " of the character 
in favor and demand therein, together with necessary busi- 
ness data concerning said samples, to be displayed at said 
Exposition for the instruction and benefit of American 
manufacturers and merchants and thereby laying the 
foundation of a great system of National Commercial Edu- 
cation." 

Commissioners of the Exposition, aided by the consular 
service of the United States, are selecting these samples 
abroad, and a representative collection of the wares in 
demand all over the world has already been secured. 

These samples will comprise the only exhibits of foreign 
goods at the Exposition. They will not be exhibited by 
foreign manufacturers or dealers, but are being purchased 
outright. 

Thisdepartment will be an education for the foreign buyers 
as well as the American manufacturer and will show him, by 
comparison, the superiority of American manufactures. 

PACKING AND LABELING. 

The third department is intended primarily and solely 
for the American manufacturer. It will comprise exhibits 
showing him how his goods must be packed and labeled for 
shipment to meet the requirements and approval of foreign 
buyers. It will be impossible to over-estimate the value 
of these exhibits to our merchants. In some countries forms 
of packing used in the United States entail heavy losses on 
foreign merchants through increased import duties. This 
discourages trade relations with the United States. 

In other countries goods must be carried great dis- 
tances into the interior in carts or on mule-back and they 
must therefore be put up in water-proof packages of con- 
venient size and weight. In still other cases, Custom 
House regulations require packages to be specially marked 







in ways not usual in the United States. The 
American manufacturer, sometimes ignorant of 
these regulations, often sends out his goods at a 
serious loss. Bad feeling on the part of his 
foreign agents is frequently engendered and the foreign 
dealer sometimes thinks he is being intentionally ill 
treated. 

In this department samples of packing, methods of 
labeling and the regulations incident to the reception of 
goods in every mart of the world will be shown. The 
American manufacturer will have an opportunity to study 
them at leisure and in company with the men whose trade 
and influence abroad he is seeking. 

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL 
CONGRESS. 

While to the general public the exhibits will form the 
most interesting portion of the Exposition, to the manu- 
facturer and the dealer, both at home and abroad, the 
opportunity for personal contact will be greatly valued. 
This will stimulate our manufacturers to seek new fields, 
and bring before the business men of the whole world the 
advantages accruing from close trade relations with the 
United States. 

The second International Commercial Congress, to be 
held during the Exposition under the auspices of the Phila- 
delphia Commercial Museum, will bring about this oppor- 
tunity for personal contact. 

In distinction from the one held under the same 
auspices in 1897, it will be more numerously attended 
and of wider scope. The Congress of that year was 
attended by a large body of business men and buyers of 
Latin America. In a six weeks' tour of inspection they 
studied American factories and manufactured goods, and 
placed orders aggregating millions of dollars with Amer- 
ican houses. 

EVERY NATION WILL BE 
REPRESENTED. 

At this year's Commercial Congress, specially 
appointed Government delegates, whose presence 
will be due to the co-operation of the State De- 
partment, will represent every country of the 
world. This recognition of the Congress will 

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have a far-reaching influence in bringing about the 
attendance of merchants from abroad. Influential 
business men will come as accredited delegates of 
over three hundred of the leading Chambers of 
Commerce and other trade associations of Europe, 
South Africa, India, Australia, China, Japan, and 
other Asiatic countries, and Central and South 
America. 

Many of these delegates will come prepared to 
discuss with our representative business men the com- 
mercial conditions affecting trade relations between the 
United States and the countries they represent. Every 
facility for the full and free discussion of all topics will 
be afforded. 



NAVIGATION GROUP ON 



FOREIGN BUYERS WILL ATTEND. 

The International Commercial Congress will give the 
Exposition unusual importance and influence. In addition 
to the accredited delegates to the Congress, about 20,000 
business houses in foreign countries have been invited to 
send representatives to the Exposition. These are among 
the firms which do the greater part of the international trade 
of the world and all have been for a considerable time in 
close relations with the Commercial Museum. The replies 
to the invitations and the reports of the Exposition Com- 
missioners who are abroad show that a large attendance is 
assured. 

Many of the largest business organizations of the country 
will hold their annual conventions in Philadelphia during 
the progress of the Exposition. This will be of great 
value, not only to the members of these organizations, 
who will be enabled to view the Exposition, but to the 
delegates to the Congress, who can thus meet the most 
representative commercial men of the country. 

GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 

The Exposition grounds are admirably situated, being 
easily accessible from all parts of the city both by electric 
car and steam railroad lines. The grounds are on the west 
bank of the Schuylkill river, within ten minutes ride of the 
City Hall, and comprise a valuable tract 
of land, fifty-six acres in extent, deeded to 
the Philadelphia Museums by the City of 
Philadelphia, and another tract of six acres 




GIRARD COLLEGE 



secured for the uses of the Exposition and providing a 
main entrance from South Street, at the northern end of 
the grounds. 

Electric cars from every section of the city run on the 
various streets adjacent to the site, and a station of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, at which all trains will stop during 
the Exposition, is located within 400 feet of the main 
entrance. On either side of the broad avenue leading from 
the South Street entrance, to the main buildings, numerous 
quaint and ornate structures will be devoted to illustrating 
the life, manners and customs of strange peoples, and to 
other amusement features of a less instructive but no less 
entertaining character. 

GRAND AND IMPOSING STRUCTURES. 

The main group of buildings is so arranged as to form 
one grand and imposing structure about 400 x 1000 feet in 
extreme dimensions, and covering an area of more than 
nine acres. Five separate buildings enter into this large 
edifice, which has been constructed largely of brick and 
steel and upon lines which the experience of other exposi- 
tions has proven to be desirable. 

The Implement, Vehicle and Furniture Building is 
devoted exclusively to a comprehensive exhibit of agricul- 
tural implements, tools and machinery, vehicles and house- 
hold furniture, in the manufacture of which American 
factories excel. This building is 450 feet long and 160 feet 
wide. 

A special structure for exhibits of locomotives and 
railroad rolling stock, electric cars and equipment for 




electric railways, is called the Transportation Building. It 
is 450 feet long and 75 feet wide, containing four tracks 
connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad'. The length of 
track available for exhibits of rolling stock approximates 
1800 feet. 

Other buildings for special exhibits or lines of trade are 
advantageousl)' located, and there is every promise that 
they will prove to be among the leading attractions of the 
Exposition. 

MAIN BUILDING. 

Of the five structures comprising the main exhibition 
buildings, three are permanent, but are only finished at the 
present time sufficiently for the purposes of the Exposi- 
tion. These three structures have two stories. They are 
each 380 feet long and 90 feet wide. The space between 
them is covered by temporary buildings, connected with 
the permanent pavilions, the whole forming a single har- 
monious edifice. The permanent buildings will eventually 
become the home of the Philadelphia Museums. 

The temporary building between the northern and 
central pavilions is 300x297 feet. It comprises an audito- 
rium and music hall 200 feet long and 140 feet wide, with 
arcades for exhibits on each side 300 feet long and 78 feet 
wide. Between the central and southern wings there is an 
immense exhibition hall 383x297 feet in size. The exhi- 
bition spaces on the first floor of the wings open into the 
main hall through wide arches, so that the entire area of 
167,200 square feet, 563x297 feet in dimensions, is practi- 
cally a single open space. 





East of the central Exhibition Hall and connected 
with it, is the Exposition power-plant, 190 x 58 feet 
in size. It is adjacent to the Pennsylvania Railroad 
tracks, affording excellent facilities for handling 
heavy exhibits. Engines, pumps, air-compressors 
and dynamos are located in one end of the power 
house, and in the other the boilers. 

ENTRANCE AND AUDITORIUM. 



The entrance to the Main Building is through a broad 
lobby 60 x 90 feet in size, in the centre of the northern 
pavilion. Handsome columns and decorations, and groups 
of statuary embellish the lobby. To the right and left, 
wide aisles lead through the exhibition spaces of the north 
pavilion, turning at right angles through the arcades on 
each side of the auditorium, into the central exhibition hall 
and its wings. 

Entrance into the auditorium, which has a seating ca- 
pacity of more than 5000, is from the lobby. There is a 
large pipe organ at the end of the auditorium, placed above 
a spacious platform, and the floor is laid at such an angle 
that there is an unobstructed view of the platform from 
every seat. 

In the auditorium, daily concerts will be given by the 
best concert bands in the country. The sessions of the In- 
ternational Commercial Congress will be held there, as well 
as the Conventions of the various trade and business organ- 
izations which have arranged to hold meetings during the 
Exposition. The second floor of the north pavilion will be 
occupied by the Administration offices of the Exposition. 
In the central and south pavilions, the upper floors will be 
given up to exhibits. 



AVAILABLE EXHIBITION SPACE. 

A total area of two hundred thousand square feet of 
space is available in the main building for exhibits. This, 
with the space provided in the special buildings, will give 
American manufacturers ample oppor- 
tunities for showing the world their wares. 
As in all Expositions, the restaurant 
facilities will form an important part of 
M0H the arrangements. The principal restau- 
KJH rant is located in the gallery of the south 




pavilion, overlooking the entire main ex- 
hibition floor. The cuisine and service 
will be equal to that of the finest hotels. 
Running from the main floor of the 
Exhibition hall, will be a short flight of 
stairs rising to the level of the roof of the 
power house. This roof will be flat, sur- 
rounded by an ornamental railing, and is 
designed to be used as a plaza from which 
visitors may obtain a view of the river, and 
that portion of the Exposition grounds 
lying east of the railroad track, where 
windmills/traction engines, and all kinds 
of machinery and farm implements, such as are not suited 
for exhibition in the implement building will be displayed. 
This space is also available for buildings for special exhibits 
and for machinery which requires a large space to show it 
in operation. 

ART IN THE EXPOSITION BUILDINGS. 

While the Exposition has in view a most practical pur- 
pose, there \vas not, in the planning of the buildings, 
any idea of subordinating the beautiful and the artistic 
to the practical end. On the contrary, the ornamentation 
and decoration of the structures, though of the temporary 
character which must of necessity be used in Exposition 
buildings, will delight the eye and appeal to the innate love 
of art and beauty which every person possesses. 

Out of a composition, the basis of which is plaster and 
papier-mache, more durable than the "staff" which made 
the buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition a de- 
light to look upon, have been formed columns with capitals 
as beautiful as though carved in white marble. Cornices and 
friezes, panels and screens, the design of skilled sculptors, 
aid in giving the buildings rare architectural attraction. 

Above the main entrance a large pediment contains a 
group of thirteen figures, representing Commerce. Other 
pediments typify the four continents. Numerous groups 
of graceful figures, symbolical of Transportation, Naviga- 
tion, Labor, Electricity, etc., rest on pedestals beside the 
pediments, and over the main entrance there 
is a large quadriga a chariot drawn by four 
horses, carrying the beautiful figure of Progress, 
whose proudly-poised head looks with calm 
and confident eyes into the future. 

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THE LIGHTER SIDE. 

The lighter side of the Exposition will not 
be neglected, and those visitors on mere pleasure 
bent will find fully as much to occupy them as 
the more serious patron from foreign lands, 
absorbed in its industrial side. The manage- 
ment will provide such attractions as will tend 
to interest the general public and insure a large 
and constant attendance. 

Good music will be one of the leading 
features, and in the handsome Auditorium the most famous 
musical organizations of the United States will- be heard 
in daily concerts, throughout the Exposition. 

In addition to special attractions of a popular character, 
which will be provided from time to time to encourage the 
attendance and popularize the Exposition with the masses, 
there will be features combining the educational and in- 
structive phase with that of the greatest novelty and interest. 
One of the leading attractions of this character will be a 
Chinese Village, a counterpart of a street in Pekin or 
Shanghai, populated with 450 men, women and children, 
brought from China for the purpose. The business, indus- 
trial and home life of the Chinese, and their native trades 
and industries, will be completely illustrated. In view of 
the wide market which China presents and the growing 
popularity of American goods in that country, the Chinese 
Village will prove an attraction of unusual interest. 

Similar features in perfect harmony with the purposes 
of the Exposition, and at the same time entertaining, will 
illustrate the trades, pursuits, industries and commerce 
of the peoples of some of our newly acquired possessions 
and their customs, dress, recreations and 
amusements. 

The amusement section is along the 
main avenue or approach to the Main 
Exposition Buildings, eight hundred feet 
in length, and will be built upon both 
sides. The amusement section at no Ex- 
position has been so well located, for 
visitors will have to traverse its entire 
length either to enter or leave the grounds. 



PHILADELPHIA COMMERCIAL 
MUSEUM. 

No approval or endorsement of an enterprise of the 
character of the National Export Exposition could lend 
more weight and be of greater influence with Ameri- 
can manufacturers interested in export trade, than the 
fact that this Exposition is held under the joint auspices 
of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum and Franklin 
Institute. 

The National Export Exposition is an outgrowth of the 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum, which is national in its* 
aim and scope and is favorably known all over the business 
world. Its sole object is to promote, by methods new, 
original and effective, the export of. American products. 
Its work is wholly unselfish and entirely without profit to 
itself. 

It is in constant communication with many foreign cor- 
respondents, from whom it receives information, unobtaina- 
ble from any other source and priceless to the export houses 
to whom it regularly disseminates the knowledge thus 
received. It has close official relations with the principal 
Chambers of Commerce and trade organizations of the 
world, from which it obtains information, and to which it 
in turn makes answer to all inquiries relative to American 
goods and manufactures. 

Congress was so impressed with the importance of the 
relation which the Philadelphia Commercial Museum holds 
towards the export trade of the United States, that it was 
provided, in the act appropriating $350,000 for the Exposi- 
tion, that $300,000 of the amount should be set aside to aid 
in providing buildings, the same to be available after the close 
of the Exposition, for one or more of the various purposes 
of the' Philadelphia Museums. Congress also recognized the 
aid of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum to American 
Commerce, by providing that the remainder of the appro- 
priation, $50,000, should be expended for the purpose of 
collecting in foreign markets samples of merchandise, in 
favor and demand therein, to be displayed at the Exposition 
and to become the property of 
the Philadelphia Museums. 

The services of the Philadel- 
phia Commercial Museum are 
invaluable to the American pro- 
ducing public, and its doors are 
always open for conference and for 

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any information it may have in its possession. Its collections 
of natural and manufactured products are well worth the 
study of any man interested in commercial progress. 

FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. 

Its ally in the Exposition, the Franklin Institute, has for 
its object the "Promotion and Encouragement of Manu- 
factures and the Mechanical and Useful Arts." Its history 
records the successful conduct of 29 exhibitions, beginning 
with the first Exhibition of American Manufactures ever 
*held, which took place in October, 1824, the year of its 
birth, in historic Carpenters' Hall. Throughout these 75 
years, the Franklin Institute has generously aided the 
progress of the industries and its many meetings and exhi- 
bitions have stimulated- efforts to better American trade 
conditions. 

Its reports and rewards are known and prized all over 
the world. I/ike the French Academy and the Society of 
Royal Engineers of England, membership in its ranks, or 
the grant of a medal or diploma by it, is a stamp of merit 
which is everywhere recognized. 

PHILADELPHIA. 

Philadelphia is eminently fitted to be the scene of a 
National Exposition. The metropolis of the greatest manu- 
facturing State in the Union, covering an area of 130 square 
miles and with a population of about 1,500,000, it is but 
proper that here should be shown to the world the triumphs 
of American progress in the commercial and mechanical 
arts. Founded in 1682 by William Penn, Philadelphia has 
grown to be the first city in manufactures and the second 
city in commercial importance in the country. 





Its resident manu- 
facturers and mer- 
chants are giving the 
Exposition their 
hearty approval and 
co-operation. Its citi- 
zens stand ready to 
welcome the world, 
and to extend to all the 
warm and sincere hos- 
pitality for which the 
Quaker City is known 
in all parts of the land. 

Enough can not be said of the commercial importance of 
the city. Within its borders are factories capable of turning 
out nearly every article in demand in the markets of the 
world. Acres of its territory are covered with mills, running 
full timeand producing goods unexcelled in finish and design. 
Its retail marts are famed, and the names of its great depart- 
ment stores are household words in every village and town. 



NDEPENOENCE HALL 



GREAT MANUFACTURING PLANTS. 

Visitors to the Exposition will have opportunities for 
viewing the many important manufacturing plants located 
in Philadelphia. Chief among these are the Baldwin Loco- 
motive Works, where engines are being built for nearly 
every country on the globe ; Cramp's Ship Yard, the largest 
on this side of the Atlantic ; the large iron and steel work- 
ing plants ; the hundreds of carpet and other textile mills 
located in various parts of the city ; the great retail estab- 
lishments and scores of busy industrial plants. 

When tired of the hum of industry, the visitor may 
regale himself with beautiful works of art at Memorial 
Hall, in Fairmount Park, the Art Building of the Centennial 
Exhibition, or the Academy of Fine Arts, where a perma- 
nent exhibition well repays a visit. 

Twenty theatres will be opened during the Exposition, 
presenting varied amusements. The Academy of Natural 
Sciences opens its fine collections at all times to the public, 
and Horticultural Hall in Fairmount Park offers to nature's 
lovers a bower of beauty. Numerous small parks, where 
amusements of many kinds can be had, are open until 
October and several lines of pleasure steamers make fre- 
quent trips up and down the Delaware River. 

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The University of Pennsylvania with its many depart- 
ments, including a most interesting Museum of Archaeolog- 
ical specimens, well repays a visitor's attention. The City 
Hall, the most commodious and costly structure of its kind, 
is one of the sights of the city, and the numerous public 
buildings are attractive. 



REMINISCENCES OF '76. 

The city is full of reminiscences of those early days 
when the great era of liberty and prosperity began to dawn. 



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Here is the Old State House, popularly termed Independ- 
ence Hall, from whose steps the Declaration of Independ- 
ence was read, and from whose tower the Old Liberty Bell 
proclaimed liberty to all men. Only a few squares away is 
Old Carpenter's Hall, and within a short distance is the 
spot on which stood the house in which the Declaration 
was penned. 

Here is Congress Hall, where George Washington took 
the oath of office for his second term as the first Presi- 
dent of the United States. The house in which the first 






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American flag was made is always open to 
visitors, who may also look upon the grave 
of Benjamin Franklin, one of the foremost 
defenders of American commercial progress. In German- 
town, a suburb of the city, may be seen the site of one 
of the bloodiest battles of the Revolution. A score of 
mansions, built in Revolutionary and Colonial times, are 
Meccas for the pilgrim with historical proclivities. 



CHURCHES AND HOTELS. 

The great churches of the world are well represented in 
Philadelphia, and there are many beautiful edifices devoted 
to the worship of God. The city is noted for its religious 
as well as its commercial and manufacturing activity. In 
splendid buildings are the homes of the great publication 
boards or societies of the Presbyterian, Baptist and Luther- 
an Churches. The headquarters of the Missionary organi- 
zations of several denominations are in the city, and of 
the numerous hospital and charitable institutions, none are 
better managed than those supported by the churches. 

Philadelphia has always been noted for its hotels. With- 
in a few years several new and in every way modern hotels 
have been erected, which with the older and equally com- 
modious houses, will provide ample accommodations for 
the thousands who will be guests of the city as visitors to 
the Exposition. 






FAIRMOUNT PARK. 



Aside from its commercial import- 
AHICKON ance, Philadelphia has attractions which 

eminently fit it for an Exposition City. 
One of these is Fairmount Park. It is the largest public 
park in the world, embracing within its domains nearly 
3000 acres, with natural scenery unsurpassed. This 'great 
pleasure ground is easily accessible from all parts of the 
city, by means of both steam and street railways. The 
Schuylkill River, which winds its placid course through the 
Park, adds much to its natural beauty. 

MANY COLONIAL 
MANSIONS. 

Fairmount Park is interesting 
from a historical stand-point also. 
Within its bounds are many man- 
sions, once the country places of 
the men whose names are synony- 
mous with the early history of the 
United States. 

In the East Park are " L,emon 
Hill," once the residence of Robert 
Morris, millionaire philanthropist 
and financier ; " Mt. Pleasant," given 
by the traitor Benedict Arnold to his bride, 
Miss Shippen, and which was the scene of 
many revels during and before the Revolution ; 
" Ormiston," the homestead of Edward Shippen Burd, 
and "Woodford," a mansion where Benjamin Franklin 
passed many an hour. In the West Park stands " Solitude," 
built by John Penn, a grandson of the founder of Pennsyl- 
vania; the " Letitia House," formerly occupied as a resi- 
dence on L,etitia Street by William Penn; "Belmont," 
formerly the residence of Judge Peters, who was 
a notable host and who entertained among others 
Tallyrand and Louis Phillippe, "Tom Moore's 
Cottage," where the poet spent many hours, and 
"Greenland" and "Chamounix," two Colonial 
mansions of note. 




TRANSPORTATION 
FACILITIES. 




Philadelphia is well equipped with trans- BROAD STBEET 5T . 
portatiou facilities. Three great trunk lines 
center within her borders, two with terminal stations 
unsurpassed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with 
its hundreds of branch lines and its connections with 
every point in the country, has its terminal near the 
City Hall in the center of the city, easily accessible from 
the Exposition grounds. 

The Philadelphia & Reading Railway is the great 
avenue from the northeastern section of the State and 
from New York State. Its miles of main line and connec- 
tions offer an avenue of ingress and egress valuable both to 
the exhibitor and to the visitor. 




The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, running through the 
Middle South and West, opens up a route of entry inter- 
esting from its passage through territory dotted with the 
great battlefields of the Civil War. Its connections with 
Southern and Southeastern Railroads make it valuable as a 
transportation agent. 

Arrangements are being made by the railroads which 
have terminals in Philadelphia, and by connecting lines, for 
reduced passenger rates and excursions from all parts of 
the country to Philadelphia during the Exposition. 

In the matter of local transportation, Philadel- 
phia is fortunate. Electric railway lines run on 
nearly every street ; suburban electric lines con- 
nect it with the five counties surrounding it, and 
local lines of the steam railroads offer every facility. 




SUMMARY. 




When you think of the National Export Exposition just 
bear these few facts in mind : 
It is national in scope. 

It is sanctioned and supported by the National Govern- 
ment, the State of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadel- 
phia. 

It proposes to aid the manufacturers of the United States 
by increasing the exportation of American products. 

In the department of foreign manufactured goods you 
will be able to inspect and study samples of the manufac- 
tured products which are successfully sold in all the world's 
markets. 

If you have made mistakes in packing or labeling goods 
for export, the Exposition will show you how it should be 
done and enable you to act intelligently in the future. 

It will introduce to vou the leading men of business in 
markets of the old world and those of the new you don't 
know. 

The International Commercial Congress will be attended 
by representatives of every important commercial nation of 
the globe. You can meet them and hear their views on 
trade. 

The leading merchants of the world, those who do the 
bulk of foreign trade in every country, to the number of 
20,000, have been urged, in personal letters, to send repre- 
sentatives to the Exposition. There is every assurance that 
a larger number of foreign buyers than has ever before 
visited the United States, will as a result attend the Exposi- 
tion. 

The Exposition is not an advertising scheme for 
those who pay the best prices for choice locations of 
space, but is purely and solely an exhibit of American 
manufactures. 

It. is held tinder the auspices of the Philadelphia 
Commercial Museum and the Franklin Institute, two 
institutions of world-wide fame. 

You, as an American manufacturer, should be so 
much interested in the growth of the commerce of 
your country, as to give to the Exposition your 
hearty encouragement and support, make an exhibit 
of your products, and show your co-operation by 
your presence. 



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